Fading Sun

Beautiful shot Tyler! Very relaxing. Did you use any filters? Love the colors...congrats...LJ

Any thoughts of comments are greatly appreciated. This shot is

unmanipulated--exactly how it came out of the camera!

Lesa--Thanks for your comments! To answer your question, no, I didn't use any filters (to be honest, I don't own any...I'm buying some this week...have been procrastinating for quite some time now!) This is exactly how the shot came out of the camera...I didn't change contrast, saturation, crop, or anything! I was pretty amazed at the colors and how distinct the sun turned out, especially considering the water and boat are decently exposed. I did shoot this RAW as well and I played around with different exposure "developings" from that file--I'd like to find a way to underexpose one stop for the sky and underexpose one stop for the boat/water and combine them. I'm told I can do this so after I get PS reloaded I'll work on that. Thanks again for the comments!

Excellent. You have a photographers eye colore taglio bravo.!!!!

cordiale saluto alex from italy.......

 

Beautiful shot and the light is once again excellent especially without any corrections. I wander, for future, if you would have moved to you left and possibly eliminated the docks in the background and captured only the shore and the sun if it could have improved it. Just a tought.

 

Beautiful image nevertheless. My compliments.

Marco--Thank you for your comment. I appreciate your kind words and suggests. Furthermore, I could not agree with you more--that dock really aggravates me! Thinking back I believe there was a reason I couldn't compose it differently with that boat (there are many boats, docks, people leaving the boat ramp, etc. that I'm working around). If I had been down about 50-100 yards there would have been a clear shot but, as you probably know, once the sun gets to that position you have about 20 seconds to shoot before it's gone. I have about several other frames from this sunset, many of which are pleasing and I'll post in the future. This sunset was almost "too good" because most of my shots have the sky burned out and the foreground black--it was the brightest sunset I've ever seen which gave great colors but made exposure a nightmare! The sun burnt out the sky in most of my frames despite the fact that I was bracketing my shots down to -2 for exposure. A ND grad would have been remarkably useful. In the end, I agree completely with you and your comment is not just a "thought" but in my opinion is a "fact," this shot could be improved with some new positioning or perhaps picking a different boat. I'll be back to try it again, armed with new knowledge about composition and also how to expose an extraordinarily bright sunset like this. Thanks for your time and comments!

like ur composition.colouring of the sun and sky highlight the horizontality and the verticality has been taken care by the subject which is placed perfectly on the right spot.very weldone.beautiful picture.keep ur good work going.

regards vinoth.

lovely burnt orange sky. i like the compression the telephoto gives you here. the boat is in perfect position to compliment the setting sun. great in-camera work Tyler. take care, J.K.